Failure To Function Adequately

Question 1

Strength

Answer 1

Acknowledges personal experience of individual, takes into account persons subjective experience and perception of ability to cope with everyday life, feeling severe personal distress, FFA captures experience of many people and is useful for assessing abnormality

Question 2

Weakness

Answer 2

easy to label non standard lifestyle choices as abnormal , hard to say whether someone is FFA or chosen to deviate from social norms, favour high risk leisure or spiritual practices could be classed as irrational and abnormal , limitation as unusual choices risk being labelled abnormal and freedom of choice may be restricted